It is rare to read excerpts from a film script that is still in post-production. Between two editing sessions, Carmen Jaquier discusses the writing of her second feature film, Les Paradis de…
In this introduction, Gene Ray reviews a series of recent events, mostly related to the Black Lives Matter movement, which may suggest that a new iconoclasm has begun. Ray associates this aggressive…
In this text, Roman Karrer examines the way in which the names of streets, squares or mountains lend such places a symbolic dimension. The name of the botanist and zoologist Louis Agassiz,…
One night in 1998, a collective amputated the foot of an equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate in New Mexico. In this article, Gene Ray examines the multiple echoes of this iconoclastic…
In a 1997 issue of October journal devoted to the Situationists, T.J. Clark and Donald Nicholson-Smith rejected the narrative that, in the early 1960s, the SI renounced art in favour of politics.…
The following essay comes from the transcription and re-elaboration of a collective reading session Camilla Paolino proposed at Fri Art Kunsthalle in February 2020, within the framework of the exhibition Dal momento…
While remote teaching has momentarily transformed their common creative writing course into a podcast, Fabienne Radi and Carla Demierre nonetheless advocate for experiential learning: the experience of reading, writing and rewriting beyond…
Historically, the clothing industry has often been in the vanguard of great economic rationalisation movements. It was one of the first industries to be industrialised in the 19th century, and in the…
Each year, the Master’s theses produced at the HEAD – Genève bear witness to great thematic, methodological and formal wealth. As mentioned by Lysianne Léchot Hirt and Anthony Masure (respectively head of…
Pourquoi (Why) is an essay that considers the position of the author within a collective form of cinema. Pourquoi articulates film analysis, accounts of experimentations and descriptions of devices. Pourquoi guides and questions an action-research, on which…